Non-Domestic Rates

Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much was  (a) billed to non-domestic rate payers and  (b) collected in business rates by each local authority in the (i) 2008-09 and (ii) 2009-10 tax year.

Barbara Follett: I have, today, placed in the Library of the House a table that gives, by each billing authority in England, the net amount of non-domestic rates that each should have collected in 2008-09 after reliefs and the amount of non-domestic rates each collected in 2008-09.
	Data for 2009-10 are not yet available.
	This data is also available in Table 3 of the statistical release "Collection rates for council tax and non-domestic rates in England 2008-09" that was published on 25 June 2009 and is available on the Communities and Local Government website at:
	www.communities.gov.uk/localgovernment/localregional/localgovernmentfinance/statistics/counciltax/collectionrates/

Children: Protection

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families with reference to the answer of 9 November 2009,  Official Report, column 107W, on children: protection, on what ground each of the 34 appeals was upheld.

Dawn Primarolo: holding answer 23 November 2009
	Information on appeals, including the detailed judgements and the reasons for decisions issued by the Tribunal, can be found on the First-Tier Tribunal's (FTT) website at
	www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk.
	The judgments issued by the FTT set out the facts of each case, the evidence presented by the Appellant and Respondent during the hearing and the FTT's reasons for its judgement.
	In general terms, the burden of proof lies with the Secretary of State as Respondent. The FTT upholds an appeal if it considers, on the balance of probabilities, that
	(i) in List 99 appeals, the Secretary of State's direction preventing an individual from working with children is not appropriate; and
	(ii) in PoCA appeals, it is not satisfied that the individual was guilty of misconduct which harmed a child or placed a child at risk of harm and that the individual is unsuitable to work with children .
	Since the reply given on 9 November 2009,  Official Report, column 107W, the Tribunal has re-heard (upon instruction from the High Court) one appeal which had been previously allowed and was included in the 34 appeals reported in that answer. As a result of the Tribunal's decision in this case to dismiss the appeal on re-hearing, the total number of appeals allowed by the Tribunal is now reduced to 33.
	Judgments, containing the reasons for decisions, for each of the 33 appeals upheld by the Tribunal can be accessed at the following addresses:
	http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View .aspx?ID=1014
	http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View .aspx?ID=882
	http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View .aspx?ID=1011
	http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View .aspx?ID=1012
	http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View .aspx?ID=1003
	http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View .aspx?ID=1010
	http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View .aspx?ID=1002
	http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View .aspx?ID=1008
	http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View .aspx?ID=275
	http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View .aspx?ID=341
	http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View .aspx?ID=342
	http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View .aspx?ID=906
	http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View .aspx?ID=297
	http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View .aspx?ID=303
	http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View .aspx?ID=345
	http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View .aspx?ID=274
	http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View .aspx?ID=396
	http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View .aspx?ID=288
	http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View .aspx?ID=354
	http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View .aspx?ID=361
	http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View .aspx?ID=965
	http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View .aspx?ID=379
	http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View .aspx?ID=433
	http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View .aspx?ID=880
	http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View .aspx?ID=949
	http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View .aspx?ID=977
	http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View .aspx?ID=1038
	http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View .aspx?ID=974
	http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View .aspx?ID=888
	http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View .aspx?ID=1039
	http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View .aspx?ID=196
	http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View .aspx?ID=199
	http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View .aspx?ID=137